KS2 · French · Year 3
Is it going OK? 'Ça va ?'
Me and others: singular 'être' and regular adjectives
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Your learning goal
I can ask and answer the question 'Ça va ?'.
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Is it going OK? 'Ça va ?': slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
Original teaching resources
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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can ask and answer the question 'Ça va ?'.
Key learning points
- Silent final consonants -s and -t can be practised by listening and matching speech to written words.
- Ça va can be the question ‘Is it going ok? or ‘how’s it going’? and the answer ‘it’s OK’.
- Different word-final spellings can have the same final sound, e.g., the -yn in Jocelyn and -en in bien.
Words to know
- SFC (Silent Final Consonant)
- Silent letter (d, s, t, x) at the end of a word.
- Intonation
- The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
- Bien
- Adverb meaning 'well'.
- Mal
- Adverb meaning 'bad'.
Common mistakes
'Ça va ?' means 'How are you?' - it can only be a question.
‘Ça va ?’ with raised intonation at the end of the sentence is a question and means ‘is it going OK?' or ‘how’s it going’?. ‘Ça va’ without intonation is a statement and means ‘it’s going OK’.
For parents, carers and teachers
- You may want to practise the song further as a call and response song in different groups, one group singing the question 'Ça va ?' and the other group responding with the answers. This could also be sung at the start of the lesson as a revision activity.